By Arit John, CNN

(CNN) — At a time when the Democratic Party is calling for fighters, Rep. Valerie Foushee of North Carolina takes a quieter approach. Her work, she said, should speak for itself.

“I don’t care a whole lot about the limelight. I care even less about attention,” she said. “What I care most about is getting the job done.”

In 2022, Foushee beat Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam and six other Democrats to win the party’s nomination for the district after former Rep. David Price retired. This time around, in a rematch with Allam, the incumbent has the backing of dozens of local leaders, as well as the current and former Democratic governors, Josh Stein and Roy Cooper.

Despite that support — and the power of incumbency — the race is seen as competitive.

Tuesday’s primary in North Carolina’s 4th District offers one of the first national tests of what kind of leaders Democrats want to send to Washington. Voters will choose between an incumbent who keeps a low profile and a younger challenger pushing to change everything about the party, from how it raises money to how its leaders get their message out.

“We need our members of Congress to not just be quiet,” Allam said. “We need our members of Congress, our elected officials at all levels, to be using their platform, using their resources, to call out injustices.”

Both candidates identify as progressives but take different approaches on the key issues shaping the race.

Allam wants to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Foushee doesn’t go that far — she has backed a bill to defund the agency’s ability to detain or monitor immigrants. The challenger has called for a federal moratorium on new data centers, including a facility being considered for the district that both candidates oppose. The incumbent has said that power should be left to local communities, which should issue moratoriums until the federal government releases guidelines on data centers.

Allam calls Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide. Foushee has not used the same term, but said she refuses to continue funding what she called the “indiscriminate killing of people in Gaza” and backed legislation to stop the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel. (A UN commission found last year that Israel committed genocide in the Gaza Strip in its war following Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack, a finding Israel rejects.)

But Allam’s biggest criticism has been outside money pouring into the race to boost Foushee. In their first matchup, Foushee benefited from roughly $3 million in outside spending from super PACs aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the cryptocurrency industry. Though Foushee has rejected AIPAC funding in this race, she’s being boosted by a late surge in spending, including from the Jobs and Democracy PAC, a super PAC aligned with the AI company Anthropic.

That spending has eclipsed Allam’s fundraising advantage and the money spent backing her challenge from liberal groups including Justice Democrats, Leaders We Deserve and American Priorities, a super PAC aiming to counter AIPAC’s influence.

Allam has also criticized Foushee’s corporate PAC donations from defense contractors and pharmaceutical companies, arguing that a candidate can’t advocate for ending the war in Gaza or “Medicare for All” while accepting those contributions. Foushee said the money comes from companies that create jobs in the district and challenged her opponent to point to a vote that was colored b

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By Issy Ronald, CNN

(CNN) — Days after the US and Israel first launched strikes against Iran, the conflict is widening by the hour, drawing in other countries across the region, sparking fears for the global economy and leaving thousands of travelers stranded.

By Monday, retaliatory strikes launched from Iran shattered any sense of security its Gulf neighbors have enjoyed, killing at least 17 people, including three US service members, across the region and in Israel.

Several US military aircraft crashed in Kuwait on Monday, the Gulf country’s defense ministry said, adding that “all crew members survived.” US President Donald Trump said Sunday that his conflict with Iran could last “four weeks or so,” offering the clearest indication yet of how long the administration anticipates the military campaign could continue.

Meanwhile, Israel launched a wave of strikes against Lebanon, responding to a Hezbollah provocation early Monday. The strikes killed at least 31 people, Lebanese authorities said, and opened up another front in the conflict.

Joint US-Israeli strikes have killed at least 555 people in Iran, according to the Iranian Red Crescent, including at least 165 people at a girls’ elementary school, the country’s state media reported.

Those strikes also killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marking a turning point in the nation’s history and leaving Iranians confronting a surreal mixture of relief, disbelief and anxiety.

Here’s what we know so far.

What’s happening now?

As the war expands, still unbounded by the vague objectives the Trump administration has laid out, new fronts are opening up.

Hezbollah fired six projectiles at an Israeli army base south of Haifa “in revenge” for Khamenei’s death in the early hours of Monday morning, prompting a furious wave of strikes from Israel in Beirut and southern Lebanon. That marked one of the most significant engagements between the two groups since a fragile ceasefire went into effect in November 2024, and Israel has not ruled out further action. An Israeli military spokesman said “all operations remain on the table” when asked about the potential for a ground operation.

In Kuwait, meanwhile, the country’s Ministry of Defense said “several United States military aircraft crashed” on Monday, without specifying the cause, and that “all crew members survived.” Videos geolocated by CNN showed a fighter jet crashing and a pilot parachuting to the ground.

CNN teams in the major Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha heard explosions Monday morning and saw what appeared to be missiles being intercepted in the skies above them.

Iran fired a new barrage of missiles toward Israel on Monday, Israel’s military said.

In Iran, multiple rounds of explosions were reported in Tehran, while patients were evacuated from a hospital in the north of the city on Sunday after it was badly damaged, according to Iranian state media.

Why did the US and Israel attack?

Both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne

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By Issy Ronald, CNN

(CNN) — Days after the US and Israel first launched strikes against Iran, the conflict is widening by the hour, drawing in other countries across the region, sparking fears for the global economy and leaving thousands of travelers stranded.

By Monday, retaliatory strikes launched from Iran shattered any sense of security its Gulf neighbors have enjoyed, killing at least 17 people, including three US service members, across the region and in Israel.

Several US military aircraft crashed in Kuwait on Monday, the Gulf country’s defense ministry said, adding that “all crew members survived.” US President Donald Trump said Sunday that his conflict with Iran could last “four weeks or so,” offering the clearest indication yet of how long the administration anticipates the military campaign could continue.

Meanwhile, Israel launched a wave of strikes against Lebanon, responding to a Hezbollah provocation early Monday. The strikes killed at least 31 people, Lebanese authorities said, and opened up another front in the conflict.

Joint US-Israeli strikes have killed at least 555 people in Iran, according to the Iranian Red Crescent, including at least 165 people at a girls’ elementary school, the country’s state media reported.

Those strikes also killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marking a turning point in the nation’s history and leaving Iranians confronting a surreal mixture of relief, disbelief and anxiety.

Here’s what we know so far.

What’s happening now?

As the war expands, still unbounded by the vague objectives the Trump administration has laid out, new fronts are opening up.

Hezbollah fired six projectiles at an Israeli army base south of Haifa “in revenge” for Khamenei’s death in the early hours of Monday morning, prompting a furious wave of strikes from Israel in Beirut and southern Lebanon. That marked one of the most significant engagements between the two groups since a fragile ceasefire went into effect in November 2024, and Israel has not ruled out further action. An Israeli military spokesman said “all operations remain on the table” when asked about the potential for a ground operation.

In Kuwait, meanwhile, the country’s Ministry of Defense said “several United States military aircraft crashed” on Monday, without specifying the cause, and that “all crew members survived.” Videos geolocated by CNN showed a fighter jet crashing and a pilot parachuting to the ground.

CNN teams in the major Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha heard explosions Monday morning and saw what appeared to be missiles being intercepted in the skies above them.<

By Issy Ronald, CNN

(CNN) — Days after the US and Israel first launched strikes against Iran, the conflict is widening by the hour, drawing in other countries across the region, sparking fears for the global economy and leaving thousands of travelers stranded.

By Monday, retaliatory strikes launched from Iran shattered any sense of security its Gulf neighbors have enjoyed, killing at least 17 people, including three US service members, across the region and in Israel.

Three US military aircraft crashed in Kuwait on Monday, “due to an apparent friendly fire incident,” the US military said, adding that all six aircrew ejected and are “in stable condition.” US President Donald Trump said Sunday that his conflict with Iran could last “four weeks or so,” offering the clearest indication yet of how long the administration anticipates the military campaign could continue.

Meanwhile, Israel launched a wave of strikes against Lebanon, responding to a Hezbollah provocation early Monday. The strikes killed at least 31 people, Lebanese authorities said, and opened up another front in the conflict.

Joint US-Israeli strikes have killed at least 555 people in Iran, according to the Iranian Red Crescent, including at least 165 people at a girls’ elementary school, the country’s state media reported.

Those strikes also killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marking a turning point in the nation’s history and leaving Iranians confronting a surreal mixture of relief, disbelief and anxiety.

Here’s what we know so far.

What’s happening now?

As the war expands, still unbounded by the vague objectives the Trump administration has laid out, new fronts are opening up.

Hezbollah fired six projectiles at an Israeli army base south of Haifa “in revenge” for Khamenei’s death in the early hours of Monday morning, prompting a furious wave of strikes from Israel in Beirut and southern Lebanon. That marked one of the most significant engagements between the two groups since a fragile ceasefire went into effect in November 2024, and Israel has not ruled out further action. An Israeli military spokesman said “all operations remain on the table” when asked about the potential for a ground operation.

In Kuwait, meanwhile, three US jets were mistakenly shot down by the Gulf country’s air defenses, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said, adding the cause of the incident is under investigation. Videos geolocated by CNN showed a fighter jet crashing and a pilot parachuting to the ground.

CNN teams in the major Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha heard explosions Monday morning and saw what appeared to be missiles being intercepted in the skies above them.

Iran fired a new barrage of missiles toward Israel on Monday, Israel’s military said.

In Iran, multiple rounds of explosions were reported in Tehran, while patients were evacuated from a hospital in the north of the city on Sunday after it was badly damaged, according to Iranian state media.

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Continúan los ataques de Estados Unidos e Israel contra Irán tras la muerte del líder supremo Alí Jamenei, y el presidente Donald Trump aseguró que la campaña militar podría durar “unas cuatro semanas”. Los ataques de represalia de Irán, por su parte, han sido rápidos y extensos, dirigidos a casi todos sus vecinos, muchos de los cuales son países del Golfo aliados de Estados Unidos. Al conflicto cada vez más amplio entró otro actor: Hezbollah. Sigue aquí las actualizaciones de la información minuto a minuto.

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La muerte del ayatola Alí Jamenei a manos de Estados Unidos e Israel generó un vacío de poder en el núcleo del régimen iraní y ha desencadenado el complejo proceso para encontrar a su sucesor. La República Islámica solo ha reemplazado a su líder supremo una vez desde que llegó al poder hace casi medio siglo.

• La CIA vigiló de cerca al líder supremo de Irán durante meses antes de los ataques que acabaron con su vida

La líder opositora venezolana María Corina Machado aseguró el domingo que en las “próximas semanas” volverá a su país, donde se preparará, según dijo, para “una nueva y gigantesca victoria electoral”.

El gendarme argentino Nahuel Gallo fue excarcelado el domingo tras más de un año de detención en Venezuela. Gallo había sido detenido en diciembre de 2024 cuando ingresaba en un paso terrestre a Venezuela para reencontrarse con su pareja y su hijo, que estaban desde hacía siete meses en el país, según la denuncia que difundió entonces la Cancillería.

El FBI investiga si el ataque contra Irán motivó al sospechoso en un tiroteo ocurrido la madrugada del domingo en el distrito de entretenimiento de Austin que dejó dos personas muertas y a ot